Christmas-tree holder.



H. A. BAILEY.

CHRISTMAS TREE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1908,

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

HORACE A. BAILEY, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHRISTMAS-TREE HOLDER.

Application filed .Tuly 1'7, 1908.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, I'TORACE A. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newton, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Christmas-Tree Holders, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to Christmas tree holders and has for its objectto provide a novel device which will firmly and securely hold aChristmas tree and which is extremely simple and inexpensive tomanufacture.

The device comprises two members which are preferably thin and flat andmay conveniently be made of pieces of board. Each member has formedtherein a tree-receiving recess and the two members are arranged to beset at right angles to each other so that when the device is set up apocket is formed to receive the lower end of the trunk of the Christmastree. Each member is also provided at its upper edge with means toengage the trunk of the tree and firmly hold it in position.

I will first describe one embodiment of my invention and then point outthe novel features thereof in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the tree holder when set up ready toreceive a tree,

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 00-00, Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4 are sideviews showing the two members of the tree holder; Fig. 5 is aperspective view of the tree holder set. up ready for use.

The device comprises the two members 3 and 4 which are preferably flatand thin and may conveniently be made of board. Each member has formedtherein a treereceiving recess 5, and the two members are constructed sothat they may be set up on their bottom edges 6 at right angles to eachother. To accomplish this the member 3 is provided in its bottom edgewith a notch 7 and the member 4 is provided with a notch 8 which issituated directly beneath the tree receiving recess 5 and in the neck 9connecting the two sides.

In setting up the device the member 3 is inserted into the recess 5 ofthe member 4 at right angles to said member t and is then placed so thatthe notch 7 of the member 3 will embrace the neck 9, said notch, itbeing understood, being of the same width as the Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

Serial No. 443,960.

thickness of the member a. Vhen the two members are assembled the neck10 of the member 3 occupies the notch 8 of the member 4, said notchbeing of a width equal to the thickness of the member 3. The notches 7and 8 are of such a depth that when the two parts are assembled thebottoms of the two tree-receiving recesses 5 are in alinement with eachother. The two necks 9 and 10 fit the notches 7 and 8 so that theengagement of the side of each neck with the corresponding notch servesto hold the two members in their vertical position. The members caneasily be separated, however, merely by lifting the member 3 to removethe neck 10 from the notch 9. When the two members are assembled asocket is formed by the two recesses 5, in which the lower end of thetree trunk 11 may be set, and if desired the member 3 may have a spur 12extending therefrom which is adapted to enter the lower end of the trunkto steady the latter.

Each member has secured at its upper edge an adjustable tree-engagingdevice which can be forced into engagement with the trunk of the treethereby to firmly hold the tree. In the form of the invention hereinshown these tree-engaging devices (which are designated 13) are pointedat their ends, as at 14, and are pivoted at 15 to the upper edges of themembers 3 and l on each side of the recesses 5. The holding devices 13may conveniently be received in slots 16 formed in the upper edges ofthe members and are arranged to be swung toward and from the recesses.WVhen the tree is placed in the holder, these devices 13 are swung intothe full line position Figs. 2, 3 and 4, and after the tree has been setinto the socket the devices are swung into the dotted line positionFigs. 2, 3 and 4 to cause the pointed ends thereof to engage and perhapsbe embedded in the trunk of the tree. These devices serve to steady thetree and firmly hold it in the holder. By making these holding devicesof the construction shown, they will readily fit trunks of differentsizes and shapes and therefore a tree having a trunk of any size thatcan be inserted into the socket can be held securely by the tree holder.The particular construction of tree-engaging devices herein shown is notessential to my invention, however.

When the holder is not in use the two members can be taken apart andpacked away in a small space.

the other in position, and adjustable pivoted Having fully described myinvention,

means on theupper edge of each member to what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is engage a trunk of a tree occupying thetree- A Christmas tree holder comprising two receiving recess. 15 5separate fiait members each adapted to be In testimony whereof, I havesigned my supported on its lower edge and each having name to thisspecification, in the presence of a tree-receiving recess extending fromthe two subscribing witnesses.

upper edge thereof, each member having a HORACE A. BAILEY. portionadapted to engage the other member l/Vitnesses: .0 when said members areplaced at right angles LOUIS S to each other, whereby each serves tohold GEORGE F. WALES.

